Definition of "fire-raising" [fire-raising]

• Malicious burning to destroy property; arson. (noun)

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• "Shetlanders did the same in 2006, when a quarter of the population signed a petition to stop the deportation of a Thai refugee who had admitted fire-raising several years earlier."
• "Its first MSP, a young Labour peer, stepped down after being imprisoned for fire-raising."
• "Widdrington at Chevy – Chase; but as for fire-raising, there was not so much as a lighted lunt amongst us, save the match which the dragon had to light the burning tow withal, which he was to spit against Saint"